Recent content by jimjam1973

Thanks , I have kegged it into a rota keg and left it in cool place or garage 12/13 deg c ...it seems ok , tastes fine ,,,I'll see how it goes and get some pbw to clean everything before I do another , I will also sanitise the hop bags I have prior to using .

I do have one of them but it wasn't showing a temp

Never sanitised the hop bag in the past , done over 25 beers from kits to AG, The fermenter has been sitting for a few months in the garage , I did sanitise it before use Why can t plastic keg or fermenter be cleaned and you suggest not using ? Some one has said that as it tastes nice and...

What would cause it ? Will the fermenter and keg be infected as well now... Can they b clans properly to be used again

P.s that's 55g citra in hop bag for 4 days , again never had a problem doing this before , this is the 1st time I have seen this in about 12 AG brews

So I brewed my ghost ship clone for the 2nd time and 1 week later it was all fine , left it another day (Ie today), opened the fermenter and saw this, so I kegged minus the top obviously, it all tasted really nice and smelt normal ( same as previous batch) What are people's thoughts ? Curious...

I am about to do a beer and realised I don't have a spare fermenter bucket , is there any reason I couldn't ferment in one of my many spare pressure barrels , will use an old old with hole in and tea towel over or air lock ?? Can't see any reason why I couldn't ..any advise

Hi all, myself and a friend have been given all the stuff to do an all grain brew, well apart from a wort cooler, I was advised that I could just let the wort cool overnight and then pitch the yeast ? Again I was told this may just make the beer a little less clear, but can use finnings to get...

Cheers ...has anyone done this with 2 kits , what was the results like

Sorry if it's been posted before but can't seem to find a definite awnser ... Am I right in saying that if I use 2 single can kits together , I won't need any sugar apart from priming ..I have 2 coopers stout that need using and want to brew without adding the sugar , ripe this will make it a 2...

I use these all the time , the one you are looking at comes with a tap on the bottom, I use 3grams per litre to carbonate and I use a mix of the bungs shown (for use with mini keg beer tap) and a 2 piece bung that you can crack to allow air in to flow the beer, ( normally black and red which are...

Well I have orders the Ahtanum pellet hops and maybe I need to add some grapefruit peel as well??? What is the best way to do the peel , do o need to zest a few grapefruit sand then chuck in the brew with hops, or do I need to boil them in water to sanitise ...or will the alcohol kill off any...

Ahtanum hops it is then , thanks ...ordered some pellets from net ,

Hi, had a good search and can't seem to find a definite answer , I had a lovely grapefruit ipa at a recent beer festival , would adding some grapefruit concentrate juice when I make up the kit ( coopers ale) , ie 500 ml or 1 litre , substituted for the same amount of the water , would this be ok...

It's coming out of keg , had allready been fermented and conditioning for a few weeks now and been primed with sugar ,